I see that most of the WPF stuff use for example DropShadowEffect, but my xaml in WinRT doesn't recognize that, is there something else to use?
However it's easy to add dropshadow to text. As photoshop dude I immediately released this:
<Grid>
<TextBlock Margin="1,1,0,0" Foreground="<!--Shadow Color-->" Text="Some text"/>
<TextBlock Foreground="<!--Text Color-->" Text="Some text"/>
</Grid>
You are correct, the DropShadowEffect is not available in Windows Store apps.
For now, effects are programmed with DirectX and C++. If you don't want to write your own interop library in C++, check out the sharpdx.org/ library
If you know the Shape of the Control you could create an Image (.png e.g.) with a dropshadow effect towards the outer bounds and include it in the style of the control with the help of Nine-Grid ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb189722.aspx )
(if the dropshadow is 5px wide you can set the margin to -5 and the nine-grid values to 5 to make the shadow appear around the control)
Greetings
You can use DropShadowBitmapEffect to create Shadow effect.
The documentation and an example can be found here.
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I am trying to put a background image, so far I have this code:
<Grid.Background>
<ImageBrush ImageSource="ms-appx:///Assets/Windows-10-Hero-Ninja-Cat-1024x576-03a71eed2a427425.jpg" Stretch="UniformToFill"/>
</Grid.Background>
Which appears this way on UWP on Windows 10:
But when I Build the WASM or Android, the Background image does not appear.
The file property is set Build action: Content, Copy to output directory: Do not copy.
Uno's WASM target is still experimental and some features are not available yet. The only yet implemented background brush is SolidColorBrush.
It's implemented for iOS (source code here), but not Android.
Since you're already in a <Grid>, you can simply put your image as first element:
<Grid>
<Image Source="ms-appx:///Assets/Windows-10-Hero-Ninja-Cat-1024x576-03a71eed2a427425.jpg" Stretch="UniformToFill" />
[... put your other controls here]
</Grid>
In case you need to use different background approaches for each platform use xaml conditional prefixes.
https://platform.uno/docs/articles/platform-specific-xaml.html#xaml-conditional-prefixes
You can use <wasm:Image ... />
At the end of the day you can have the same result with flexible markup.
Is there an easy way to get the content (text) on the left side of a ToggleSwitch control? (Else than messing up the Template).
Thanks
You should alter the template if you want to do it correctly.
However, if you want to fix it in a hacky way, change the FlowDirection of the control. But then you'll have to tweak with margins and alignments to make it look decent when used with other controls (see image below for default alignment).
<StackPanel>
<ToggleSwitch OffContent="Test" OnContent="Test2"></ToggleSwitch>
<ToggleSwitch OffContent="Test" OnContent="Test2" FlowDirection="RightToLeft"></ToggleSwitch>
</StackPanel>
A modified template displaying SwitchToggle content on the left can be found here.
I am trying to get a RichEditBox to take over the entire width of the app window and to be responsive to window resizing, so far the code I have is the following:
<RichEditBox HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
TextWrapping="WrapWholeWords"
Height="250"
Name="Intro"/>
What I am getting from the code above is this:
Any ideas on how can I get this to work? Why is it that I tell the text to wrap and it doesn't follow?
UPDATE
I also tried this:
<RichEditBox HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
Height="250"
Name="Intro"/>
But the result is:
The problem that I am having is that it seems that HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" does not really do anything. The only way I am able to set a decent width is by hard-coding it, for example: Width="600". But if I do this my UI will not respond correctly to resizing. I also tried HorizontalContentAlingment="Stretch" but the result is exactly the same.
How can I get my RichEditBox take up all the available Width and Wrap at the same time?
If you look at the documentation of RichEditBox.TextWrapping, you'll notice that WrapWholeWords is invalid. You have to use
<RichEditBox TextWrapping="Wrap"/>
-or-
<RichEditBox TextWrapping="NoWrap"/>
Since Wrap is the default value, you can drop the property.
<RichEditBox HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
Height="250"
Name="Intro"/>
Edit: in reply to the updated question:
A control only takes the width of it's parent control. Some container controls (e.g. Grid) automatically take the full width available, while others (e.g. StackPanel) only take the required size of it's children. Using HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" in combination with a StackPanel as a parent control, will only use the MinWidth property instead of the full available width on your screen. Sometimes you can't directly see this issue, e.g. when your control is inside an itemtemplate of a ListView. Use the Live Visual Tree in Visual Studio to find the parent containers and locate the issue.
So in short: make sure your RichEditBox is inside a Grid (or similar control) instead of a StackPanel.
I'm trying to port my WP8 app to WP8.1 by creating a new Universal app.
One thing that really drives me crazy is the new scaling behaviours of WP on higher resolution screens.
I just want my XAML to scale up (so everything becomes bigger). Just like it did on WP8. I've tried to do this with a Viewbox but that didn't work out very well either (weird margins all over the place :S).
How do I achieve this?
Kind regards,
Niels
I'm also making use of Viewboxes and had problems with weird margins but setting the Stretch property of the Viewbox to Fill solved it:
<Viewbox Stretch="Fill">
<Grid Height="1280" Width="768">
<Grid> ... </Grid>
</Grid>
</Viewbox>
Hope this helps!
Tried adding a Coding4Fun RoundButton to my WP8 XAML. Looked around and copied from samples (i.e. this site), but despite the nice images I see everywhere, the text is displayed on top of my icon:
The XAML code is:
<c4f:RoundButton x:Name="buttonShrtn" Click="buttonShrtn_Click" ImageSource="Assets/Images/icon-button-32.png" FontSize="18" Content="Shrtn" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Right"/>
I just can't find a similar case anywhere. Could there be something else in my XAML that can cause this?
You have to use Label instead of Content.
EDIT
RoundToggleButton, RoundButton, OpacityToggleButton, Tile, and ImageTile content property shifted to Label property. (geekchamp)
Toolkit description.